Massive Yosemite rock falls don't deter climbers

30/09/2017

Ranger Scott Gediman said Wednesday that witnesses made multiple calls reporting the rock fall around 2 p.m. PDT. This time of year is peak climbing season in Yosemite. At this point, the rock was a few climbers. One man was injured and is being treated at a hospital in Modesto.

Gediman says the two were hiking at the bottom of El Capitan's vertical face in preparation on their way to scale it when the rock fell. The tallest part of El Capitan is about 1220m above Yosemite Valley below.

Officials had no immediate estimate for how much the big rock weighed but Gediman said all of the rock falls Wednesday weighed 1,300 tons (1,100 metric tons) combined.

Preceding this week's events, the last recorded rockfall-related death in Yosemite happened in June of 1999 when a climber was killed below Glacier Point. They posted pictures on social media showing billowing white dust moments after the crash. Massive plumes of dust could be seen trailing the falling rocks. The precise cause of the latest Yosemite Rock Falls will require a geologic investigation, but as Fresno State Geology Professor Jerry DeGraff explains, they are just what happens when you have granite cliffs. "The rockfall from El Capitan was similar in size and extent compared with other rockfalls throughout the park, though it is not typical that that there were victims".

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